Birth and family
Marina Vladi's real name is Ekaterina Marina Vladimirovna Polyakova-Baidarova. She was born on May 10, 1938 in the French town of Clichy-la-Garenne. She always considered herself Russian, but with a French passport.
Her father, Vladimir Vasilyevich Polyakov-Baidarov, was born in Moscow and graduated from the conservatory here. When the First World War began, I wanted to volunteer for the front. But they didn’t take him into the Russian army, they refused because his father had recently died, his mother remained a widow, and Vladimir was the only child in the family. Then he went to France and became a pilot. During his service he was wounded and received a military award - the military cross. At the end of the war, Marina's father remained in France, worked as an artist at the Paris Opera House, and performed at the Monte Carlo Opera for seven seasons.
Marina's mother, ballerina Militsa Evgenievna Envald, was the daughter of a Russian general, studied at the Institute for Noble Maidens in Smolny. After the revolution, the family remained in Russia for some time, but in 1919 they emigrated to Belgrade due to the pogroms that began in St. Petersburg. In this city, Militsa met Vladimir Polyakov-Baidarov, who came with the theater on tour. They soon got married, and four daughters were born into their family.
All four girls connected their lives with the creative profession and took pseudonyms that sounded different, but began with a capital letter “V”. In 1955, the French magazine Paris-Match came to the conclusion that this letter in all the pseudonyms of the Polyakov-Baidarov sisters means “victory.” The eldest Olga Varen became a television director, the middle sisters Tanya and Militsa took the pseudonyms Odile Versoix and Hélène Vallier, respectively, and both became actresses. The youngest Catherine Marina chose the pseudonym Vladi in honor of her father Vladimir after his death.
Childhood and youth
Mikhail Efimovich was born in the early autumn of 1948 in the Kyrgyz city of Kant, where the first years of his biography passed. Shvydkoy is Jewish by nationality, but, as he notes in an interview, he is Russian by culture and language. His mother worked as a surgeon, his father was a military man, when the boy was 5 years old, his parents divorced. Mom got married for the second time, Mikhail Ikov became her husband, the man worked as a trombonist. Shvydkoy's younger brother Andrei followed in his father's footsteps; he is now a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater.
Mikhail studied well at school, when he graduated, he chose where to go next - Moscow State University or GITIS, and ultimately chose the second. There the young man studied theater studies, and later defended his dissertation in art history.
Childhood, youth and first steps in cinema
Mom, a former ballerina, and dad, a performer of Russian and gypsy romances, prepared their daughters for an artistic future from early childhood; they all learned to play the piano.
As a child, Marina wanted to connect her life with ballet, like her mother. The girl studied at the choreographic school at the Grand Opera for a long time. She did not become a ballerina, but the skills she acquired at school to hold herself on stage and move beautifully were useful to her later in the cinema. The beautiful actress Marina Vladi has always been distinguished by her flexibility and grace.
Marina entered the world of cinema while still just a girl. She was only 11 years old when she starred in her first film - the melodrama directed by J. Geret “Summer Storm”. The main role in the film was played by her older sister Tanya, and Marina got a cameo role, however, even in such an insignificant appearance on the screen, the potential of the future actress was visible.
Over the next four years, Marina starred a lot in Italian and French melodramatic and comedy films. Her roles were small, but in this way she gained experience, which allowed her to play the main characters at the age of 15. She drove directors crazy with her green, slightly slanted eyes, chiseled figure and porcelain skin.
An excerpt characterizing Polyak, Marina Aleksandrovna
- Which? Which? - Petya asked around him in a crying voice, but no one answered him; everyone was too carried away, and Petya, choosing one of these four faces, whom he could not clearly see because of the tears that had come into his eyes with joy, concentrated all his delight on him, although it was not the sovereign, shouted “Hurray! in a frantic voice and decided that tomorrow, no matter what it cost him, he would be a military man. The crowd ran after the sovereign, accompanied him to the palace and began to disperse. It was already late, and Petya had not eaten anything, and sweat poured from him like hail; but he did not go home and, together with a diminished, but still quite large crowd, stood in front of the palace, during the sovereign’s dinner, looking out the palace windows, expecting something else and equally envying the dignitaries who were driving up to the porch - for the sovereign’s dinner, and the chamber lackeys who served at the table and flashed through the windows. At the Emperor’s dinner, Valuev said, looking out the window: “The people still hope to see Your Majesty.” Lunch was already over, the sovereign got up and, finishing his biscuit, went out onto the balcony. The people, with Petya in the middle, rushed to the balcony. -Angel, father! Hurray, father!.. - the people and Petya shouted, and again the women and some weaker men, including Petya, began to cry with happiness. A rather large piece of the biscuit, which the sovereign was holding in his hand, broke off and fell onto the railing of the balcony, from the railing to the ground. The driver standing closest to him in his undershirt rushed to this piece of biscuit and grabbed it. Some of the crowd rushed to the coachman. Noticing this, the sovereign ordered a plate of biscuits to be served and began throwing biscuits from the balcony. Petya's eyes became bloodshot, the danger of being crushed excited him even more, he threw himself on the biscuits. He didn’t know why, but he had to take one biscuit from the king’s hands, and he had to not give in. He rushed and knocked down an old woman who was catching a biscuit. But the old woman did not consider herself defeated, although she was lying on the ground (the old woman was catching the biscuits and did not get them with her hands). Petya knocked her hand away with his knee, grabbed the biscuit and, as if afraid of being late, again shouted “Hurray!”, in a hoarse voice. The Emperor left, and after that most of the people began to disperse. “I said that we would have to wait a little longer, and so it happened,” people said joyfully from different sides. No matter how happy Petya was, he was still sad to go home and know that all the pleasure of that day was over. From the Kremlin, Petya did not go home, but to his comrade Obolensky, who was fifteen years old and who also joined the regiment. Returning home, he resolutely and firmly announced that if they didn’t let him in, he would run away. And the next day, although he had not yet completely given up, Count Ilya Andreich went to find out how to settle Petya somewhere safer. On the morning of the 15th, the third day after this, countless carriages stood at the Slobodsky Palace. The halls were full. In the first there were noblemen in uniforms, in the second there were merchants with medals, beards and blue caftans. There was a hum and movement throughout the hall of the Noble Assembly. At one large table, under the portrait of the sovereign, the most important nobles sat on chairs with high backs; but most of the nobles walked around the hall. All the nobles, the same ones whom Pierre saw every day, either in the club or in their houses, were all in uniforms, some in Catherine’s, some in Pavlov’s, some in the new Alexander, some in the general noble, and this general character of the uniform gave something strange and fantastic to these old and young, the most diverse and familiar faces. Particularly striking were the old people, low-sighted, toothless, bald, covered in yellow fat or wrinkled and thin. For the most part, they sat in their seats and were silent, and if they walked and talked, they joined someone younger. Just like on the faces of the crowd that Petya saw in the square, on all these faces there was a striking feature of the opposite: a general expectation of something solemn and ordinary, yesterday - the Boston party, Petrushka the cook, Zinaida Dmitrievna’s health, etc.
Film career
In 1952, in the Italian film “Black Feathers,” Marina starred with Marcello Mastroianni. She was 14 years old, he was 27. The French girl, in whom Russian blood flows, turned the young actor’s head. He fell in love and courted him, but Marina was more attracted to the handsome Marlon Brando, who did not reciprocate her feelings. As Mastroianni later recalled: “I can’t say that she was a stunning beauty, but there was something about Marina that overwhelmed men at first sight.”
In 1953, two melodramas were released in which Marina played her first serious roles: “First Love” and “First-Class Girl.” After the premiere screenings, many directors considered a new film type in the young actress - a feminine and fragile girl with an unbending will to live.
Great success came to Marina Vladi after the premiere of the film “Before the Flood”; for this work the actress was awarded the Suzanne Bianchetti Prize.
Soviet viewers recognized actress Marina Vladi from the film “Days of Love” directed by Giuseppe De Santis. Young lovers from poor peasant families faked an elopement in order to get married secretly because they did not have money to celebrate their wedding. As soon as the film was released, the young actress won the hearts of viewers in the USSR.
And already in 1956, she conquered the whole world after the release of the film “The Witch” directed by Andre Michel. The actions described in A.I. Kuprin’s story “Olesya” were transferred to France. The forest witch Inga fell in love with the visiting engineer Laurent. Since the girl from the forest cannot have any underwear, the director demanded that Marina wear a dress over her naked body. And although there was not a single erotic scene in the film, the witch played by Vladi drove the whole world crazy.
Thousands of girls born at that time received the name Inga. Viewers of the Soviet Union watched the film several times. Women wept at the scene as Inga was stoned to death by the villagers. And all men fell in love with the young beautiful actress. This was the biggest success in Marina Vladi’s film career.
There were many more successful works in her life, Marina Vladi played in more than a hundred films, but for the whole world she remained the sorceress Inga.
Marina’s film career also included negative roles: the nymphomaniac Regina in “Modern History, or the Queen of the Bees,” the store owner in the film novel “Hypocrisy,” Maria in “Sirocco,” Maria in the film “There Are Two.” Many directors said about her: “This is what a wonderful actress means. Transforms from angel to devil with such ease.”
Other most famous works of Marina Vladi include:
- Lily Marcelin in Crime and Punishment;
- Princess of Cleves in the film of the same name;
- Elsa in "The Girl in the Window";
- Kate Percy in Falstaff;
- Eve Wilson in the film "At Death's Sight";
- Juliet Janson in the film Two or Three Things I Know About Her;
- Lika Mizinova in “The Plot for a Short Story”;
- Madame Paraber in the film “Let the Holiday Begin”;
- Muriel Lossray in the film "Seven Deaths by Prescription";
- Kim in "The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle";
- Mathilde Brunel in "Secrets of the French Court".
The creative merits of Marina Vladi have been repeatedly appreciated. In 1963, the film “Queen Bee,” in addition to being a resounding success and receiving an award at the Cannes Film Festival for Best Actress, brought the actress a Golden Globe nomination. And in 2012, for her long and successful cinematic career, Vladi received the Henri-Langlois Award.
Participant of the Miss Magmens contest - Marissa Shvydkaya
Age: 23 years old
Height: 180 cm
Figure parameters: 90-60-100
Eye color: green
I don’t have bad habits, I have a negative attitude towards both smoking and alcohol - I prefer the gym and mineral water. At the age of 14, she weighed 96 kg and independently went through a whole life stage of rehabilitation and “sharpening” of her body. CMS junior league in tennis and chess. I spend the whole summer on a jet ski - this is my weakness and passion!
I believe that a woman in life should succeed both in her career and in family life, therefore, despite my ambitions and high position, I dream of four children, whom I will raise without the now fashionable governesses and nannies.
I prefer not to receive emotions, but to give them, so in relationships I put the man’s comfort and happiness above my own. I relax actively and variedly: from cycling marathons to jet skiing and piloting a civilian helicopter. I love reading books - I buy them not in pieces, but in kilograms, and I don’t accept only paper ones; I don’t accept electronic ones. I think that what makes a girl beautiful is her intelligence, upbringing, pride and principles, and not a short dress and neckline.
Two completed higher educations. The first is from St. Petersburg State University, diploma in family psychology with honors. Second – Russian State University for the Humanities, diploma in social psychology with honors. I work as a personal business assistant to the president of a large Finnish corporation that sells heavy equipment and components for mining.
My dad’s upbringing is bearing fruit - I communicate with cars on a first-name basis: I can not only change a tire or add antifreeze, but also determine by extraneous sounds what’s wrong with the car. I also consider myself a good driver. And I am very ashamed of those female representatives who behave like chickens behind the wheel...
I will divide my life goal into two points: for myself and for others. Firstly, I want to provide my children with such a life that they will not need anything. And we are talking not only about good clothes, quality food and a big house, but also about the warmth and care of both parents, about comfort and a sense of security, about a large family where grandparents are not isolated from their grandchildren and great-grandchildren... We are talking about that family, where love and respect for each other are higher than your own ego and finding out who is right and who is wrong. This is my utopian goal and dream at the same time.
Secondly, I plan to open my own psychological rehabilitation center after difficult life situations: from the loss of loved ones to accidents and disasters. How will he differ from many of his own kind? I will personally select the psychologists working there and regularly remind them what ethics, responsibility and dedication are. This is very necessary in our country...
I like the absence of bad habits in men - I believe that healthy children can only be raised by a healthy example! Strength of spirit, determination, ambition, which are combined with kindness, sincerity and loyalty to the family. It is difficult to describe some qualities in words, but I am sure many will understand me - a man with whom you can allow yourself to be a weak girl cannot help but like him.
Signature dish: charcoal-grilled rib-eye steak made from grain-fed Black Angus meat. It’s very difficult to tear me away from the kitchen, I love cooking!!
True happiness and harmony within a person is to give without expecting anything in return. 
For Magmen's Elena agreed to answer several questions:
– Which mineral water do you prefer? With or without gas?
– Without gas and only warm – no ice and refrigerator. Ideally, I look for brands that sell mineral water, not purified water from the tap.
– Was there any significant event at the age of 14, after which you decided to change yourself?
- Oh... I was sent to the Artek camp, where, while weighing myself at the first aid station, I broke the scales designed for 100 kg. So old, with an arrow... It spun wildly and froze. After me, these scales no longer worked! It became very awkward and embarrassing. Then, throughout the shift, colleagues from the squad periodically hugged me with the phrase: “You’re not fat, don’t worry, you’re just fat!” They developed a complex in me that haunted me many years later... Fortunately, it is in the past!
Marissa Shvydkaya
– Why don’t you trust governesses and nannies?
– Probably because a girl with a quality education, decent self-esteem and determination will not take such a job. She will not give herself to the fullest so that the child, someone else’s child, receives the maximum from upbringing. She will not lay down rigid foundations, principles, or basic rules of relationships. Only parents can do this! I am sure that the problem of the dissolute generation, where children at the age of 12 boast that they quit smoking, where at the age of 14 girls give birth, where at the age of 16 they think about marrying a rich man, and not about their future specialty at work - the problem of this generation is in the parents, who could not or did not want to provide quality education. To be honest, I’m just very afraid that one of these “cool” kids will negatively influence my child and try to lead him far from the “righteous path.” Only parents, as authority figures, can raise a child in such a way that he follows his own path and does not succumb to the influence of peers.
Marissa Shvydkaya
– How do you plan to raise your children? What life lessons do you want to teach them?
– In addition to the above, there are several basic life rules that my parents instilled in me and which, having experienced from my own experience, I want to pass on to my children:
Personal life
Marina married for the first time at the age of 17 to actor and director Robert Hossein. This acquaintance changed a lot in the life of the young actress; Robert directed Marina in several of his films, the most striking being the role of Juliet in the film “The Charming Liar.” Robert is known to Russian audiences for his role as Count Geoffrey de Peyrac of Toulouse in the film adaptation of the novels “Angelique” by Anne and Serge Golon. The beautiful couple lived in marriage for four years; Marina gave birth to Robert two sons, Igor and Peter. The couple's divorce was painful; they did not maintain good friendly relations.
For the second time, Vladi married test pilot Jean-Claude Brouillet, who owned an airline in Africa. Jean-Claude's heroic profession captivated Marina, she fell in love with the courageous handsome man, but again not for long. The couple lived in marriage for a little more than three years, they had a son, Vladimir.
Films with her participation
Until 2013, no one talked about such an actress as Marina, and certainly did not compare her in any way with Laetitia Casta, Brigitte Bardot and Julia Roberts. There was none of this. Just small roles in five endless TV series, where you had to play yourself.
Marina got her first real role in the film “My Piece of the Pie,” which earned critical approval. However, another film shown in Cannes brought her fame.
Indeed, who else could play the inner drama of a seventeen-year-old girl so convincingly than the fragile and green-eyed beauty Marina Vakt. “Young and Beautiful” today sounds not only as the title of F. Ozon’s festival film, but also as the main definition of the actress who played the main role.
Vacth has only seven films to her name so far, including It's Like Day in the Middle of the Night, The Man with the Golden Brain and Model Families, and she doesn't feel like a rising star herself. It should be noted that not all films with Vakt’s participation were dubbed for the Russian public.
Love of my life - Vysotsky
In 1967, Marina Vladi was invited to the Soviet Union as a guest of honor at the Moscow International Film Festival. Here she was received very kindly and was taken to many theatrical performances. Once she went to the Taganka Theater for a rehearsal of the play “Pugachev”. The famous USSR actor, composer and performer Vladimir Vysotsky was rehearsing the role of Khlopushi on stage at that time. Marina was amazed by his extraordinary voice, despair and strength. This is how she first saw the most important love of her life.
Marina went to a performance, and then to dinner at a theater restaurant, where, by the will of fate, she ended up at the same table with Vysotsky. He took her hand in his hands and held it for a long time, without letting go. He didn’t eat or drink, but just looked into her eyes: “Finally, I found you. You will become my wife." Marina laughed, because in order to get married, you must at least fall in love with each other, and then she is married, she has three sons. To which Vysotsky replied: “I also have a wife and two sons. But I love you and I will make you love me.”
He kept his word. In general, those who knew Vysotsky closely said that he always achieved his goal. Marina flew to France with a feeling that was still incomprehensible to her, somehow uncomfortable and inappropriate. What kind of relationship could there be? She lives in Paris, he in Moscow. Both cannot live without their jobs and will not want to leave their countries. Over time, Marina realized that she was suffering. Her mother was the first to declassify her: “You’ve fallen in love, my girl!”
Yes, she didn’t just fall in love, Marina went crazy with love. Vysotsky was constantly present in her thoughts. Finally, Vladi decided to join the French Communist Party and the actors' union. Thanks to this, she became a favorite not only of Soviet viewers, but also of officials. Now she easily received visas and could travel to the USSR without hindrance.
She flew to the Soviet Union with her mother and sons to play Lika Mizinova in a film about Chekhov. At the end of filming, the mother flew to Paris, Marina sent her sons to a pioneer camp, and she plunged headlong into a stormy, vibrant romance with Vysotsky.
Marina constantly traveled to the Soviet Union. To be together, lovers asked to stay with friends for the night, rented a cabin on a boat for a few hours, or bought tickets in a compartment of the Moscow-Leningrad train. In the end, they decided to get married and got married on December 1, 1970, without any formal ceremonies, dresses or suits. They just needed Marina to be able to come on request as a spouse.
And then in their life there was a breathtaking honeymoon on a ship on the Black Sea. They were so enchanted by each other, as if they were teenagers experiencing love for the first time. In Tbilisi, Vysotsky’s fans gave them a real wedding feast. The floors of their room were strewn with fruit: peaches, figs, apricots and pomegranates. Marina calls this time the best in her life.
Only three years after the wedding, Vysotsky was allowed to obtain a foreign passport in order to travel to France to join his wife. Marina showed him the whole world, they traveled all over Europe, to the USA, Canada, Mexico. He willingly gave concerts for Russian emigrants everywhere, feeling how much the people loved his work. Marina, of course, wanted him to be around all the time. Because of these long trips to the USSR, rumors even spread that Vysotsky would remain in the West. But Vladi clearly understood that without Russia, without his people, for whom he writes songs, Vysotsky would suffocate.
Twelve years of frantic love, unbridled passion and persistent struggle with his addictions - alcoholism and drugs. Marina desperately and until the last fought for her loved one, getting him admitted to Parisian clinics for treatment. On July 11, 1980, they saw each other for the last time. He flew to Moscow, she cried, kissed him and stroked his unshaven cheeks. He waved his hand to her from the escalator at the airport and shouted: “Don’t cry. It’s not time yet!”
The time came in just two weeks. On July 25 at 4 o'clock in the morning, Marina woke up sweating and saw a bloody stain on her snow-white pillow - a mark from a crushed mosquito. The phone rang, and she clearly understood what news she was about to hear: “Volodya has died...”
She flew to Moscow, where she buried the most important love of her life.
Marina Kravets: nationality, biography
Marina Kravets is a famous participant in the popular show “Comedy Club”. The artist is quite a versatile person. She perfectly gets used to different images when playing on stage. In addition, Marina sings well and often performs on stage as a singer.
In addition, Kravets is known as a presenter on radio and television. There is a place for cinema in her creative career. She has played several roles and therefore does not refuse interesting roles that directors offer her from time to time.
Many fans of the artist are interested in her biography. Due to her unusual appearance, it is not entirely clear what her nationality is.
For those who are interested in the question of Marina Kravets’ nationality, we inform you that everything is not simple: her father is Jewish, her mother is Yakut. Marina herself was born in St. Petersburg. This happened in 1984. In addition to her, the family raised two more children - Marina’s older brothers.
The girl showed her vocal abilities as a child, but due to the lack of free places, she never got into a music school. As a high school student, the girl started playing in KVN. Together with her friend, she composed songs and scripts for numbers.
She did not give up this fascinating activity even when she entered the philological department of one of the universities in St. Petersburg. Having received her diploma, the girl did not attempt to find a job in her specialty, but continued to engage in her favorite pastime.
The creative activity of Marina Kravets is quite diverse. For some time she performed in musical groups. Her songs have gained the popularity of many listeners. In particular, the hits “Disco Goddess” and “Hop, Trash Can” became the most popular. At the same time, she worked as a radio presenter at Radio Rocks.
After moving to Moscow, the girl was offered a job as a radio presenter at the Mayak station. She started working at TNT in 2008. Her career at Comedy Woman did not work out, but she was lucky with the Comedy Club, where Marina performs with famous Russian comedians.
As for the actress’s personal life, it is known that she is married. Her husband's name is Arkady Vodakhov.
They met back in their student years, but for a long time they had exclusively friendly relations. Over time, they grew into love. In 2013, the couple legalized their relationship. The couple is not against having children, as they believe that every person’s first priority should be family, not work.
Despite the fact that Marina does not exercise or diet, she has an excellent figure. With a height of 171 cm, her weight does not exceed 57 kg.
Life after Vysotsky
After Vysotsky’s death, Marina returned to Paris and began to experience terrible depression. An oncologist who was treating her sister at the time, Leon Schwarzenberg, helped her get out. In 1981, he became her fourth husband, and Vladi lived with Leon until his death. In 2003, doctor Schwarzenberg, who saved people all over the world from cancer, died of cancer.
Currently, Marina Vladi writes books. One of her most famous works is the novel dedicated to Vysotsky - “Vladimir, or Interrupted Flight.”
Another tragedy in the life of the actress occurred on a highway, where two of her grandchildren died in a terrible accident, and her son, barely surviving, was in a coma for a long time. This time, Marina was saved from depression by dogs, which she picks up on the street, takes in in shelters and provides them with care, giving them her care and affection.
Personal life and interesting facts
- Marina Konyashkina is not married. The actress permanently resides in Moscow. In one of the interviews, the girl admitted that her heart is occupied today, but Marina keeps the details of her personal life secret.
- The artist’s height is 170 cm, weight – 53 kg.
- Marina adheres to proper nutrition and is always in perfect physical shape. Regularly attends yoga classes. He loves to read various literature and visit museums.
- In her free time from work, the girl prefers to travel to unadvertised tourist spots. Marina has a TV, given by her father, which she uses as a computer screen.
- Actress Marina Konyashkina uses social networks. She has an account on today’s popular Instagram, where she has more than 15 thousand subscribers. She pays little attention to her page and regrets her time. Nothing is advertised on Instagram. Periodically posts photos and writes short posts. He loves new events in life, because without it he becomes sour. Marina strives to constantly develop and move forward.
